My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . "This book is like nothing you've read before about the world of movies-written by a movie star."-Liz Smith An Academy Award-winning actress and the internationally bestselling author of Out on a Limb delivers her touching, warm, and headline-making memoir. In My Lucky Stars Shirley MacLaine talks candidly and personally about her four decades in Hollywood, especially about the men and women-her "lucky stars"-who touched and challenged her life. " Maclaine is an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining."-The New York Times Book Review

Shirley Maclaine was born and raised in Virginia. She began her career as a Broadway dancer and singer, then progressed to featured performer and award-winning actress in television and films. She has traveled extensively around the world, and her experiences in Africa, Bhutan, and the Far East formed the basis for her first two bestsellers,Don't Fall Off the MountainandYou Can Get There From Here. Her investigations into the spiritual realm were the focus ofOut on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, It's All in the Playing,andGoing Within, all of which were national and worldwide bestsellers. In her intimate memoirDance While You Can, she wrote about aging, relationships, work, her parents, her daughter, and her own future as an artist and a woman. MyLucky Stars- A Hollywood Memoiroffers a candid and searching look at her forty years in Hollywood and the stars who taught her about show business and life.

"This book is like nothing you've read before about the world of movies-written by a movie star."-Liz Smith "[Maclaine is] an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining."-The New York Times Book Review